Instrumentation and electrical professionals know the challenge in connecting wired devices in the field. These connections must be suitable for the hazardous location classification and environmental conditions. The engineering effort includes not only the selection...
This past year commodity prices continued their dip with increased volatility causing market values to slide another 16% putting increased pressure on even the largest companies to improve their free cash flow.[1] Without a recovery in commodity prices in sight,...
Austin, Texas, already a hotbed for technology as recently recognized by Forbes magazine, will host a gathering of chemical engineering professionals later this month. The AIChE is hosting the 2015 Spring Meeting and 11th Global Congress on Process Safety here on...
Author: Dennis Tkacs Why do computer driven systems fail? It's a subject I want to develop over the next few blog posts. And by fail I don't mean technically, but rather why do they fail to meet the business cases under which their procurement was initially justified?...
Author: Robert Ferris, Ph.D. As nanomaterial production increases, so does the need for quality assurance. Here, we cover the common challenges with nanomaterial scale-up and how some companies are ensuring product performance for their customers. As nanomaterials...
In a recent post we highlighted diagnostics to identify wiring corrosion. But what about corrosion in the process piping? I recently received a whitepaper, Solutions for Corrosion Monitoring in Refineries, written by Emerson's Kjell Wold and Hallgeir Jenssen. They...
Emerson's Felipe Fakir shared a whitepaper with me, Hardware in the Loop Simulation for Industrial Process Control, which he and colleagues attending São Paulo State University in Brazil had written. Their abstract [I've added hyperlinks]: Real-time simulation for...
Author: Robert Ferris, Ph.D. 3D printing is taking the manufacturing world by storm; this article covers what nanotechnology is delivering in the world of additive manufacturing. We have all heard of the revolutionary capabilities of additive manufacturing / 3D...
Author: Robert Ferris, Ph.D. Nanotechnology-enabled products are offering real value in equipment reliability Reliability is the hot-topic in the automation world right now. Nearly every major company, ranging from BHP Billiton, BP, or BASF, has identified process...
Author: Robert Ferris, Ph.D. Nanotechnology-enabled products is offering real value in the oil & gas industry This piece will focus on the customers in the oil & gas industry. Oil & gas producers have been an early adopter of nanotechnology. Fundamentally,...
The white paper discusses the role of dynamic process simulation for addressing the global shortage of skilled process plant operators. Industry experts have predicted the upcoming technical labor shortage for years. The process industries are seeing the beginning of...
Author: Robert Ferris, Ph.D. With the burgeoning selection of nanotechnology-enabled products, we are simultaneously watching the creative destruction process at work. A company's success or failure depend on a number of factors, including market dynamics, technology,...
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